Surprise, Halo Wars 2 Is Coming

Did anyone really expect a sequel to Halo Wars?! It’s coming fall 2016 from Creative Assembly, and based on what Kotaku has heard, it’s going to be episodic, too. Plus, it’s for both Xbox One and Windows 10. Contact the author at [email protected]

Dark Souls 3 Looks Familiar In A Good Way

All Dark Souls fans got at E3 was a CG trailer to speculate over, but Gamescom brought our first look at gameplay from the latest sequel. Unsurprisingly, it looks like Dark Souls! Hooray! I’ll need to spend some time picking apart everything that’s in here, but am I the only one who thinks Dark Souls…

Surprise Steam Hit Ark: Survival Evolved Is Coming To Consoles

This seems pretty big. Ark: Survival Evolved has been blowing up on Steam for a little while now, and it’s coming to Xbox One. It’ll launch in Microsoft’s version of early access this “winter,” with the finished game hitting sometime in 2016. Contact the author at [email protected]

Watch Things Explode In Crackdown 3

“It’s not just what you can do with a gun; it’s the opportunities you can create with destruction.” Woooooo! We got a tiny glimpse at Crackdown 3 this morning during Microsoft’s Gamescom presser. The narrator in the trailer mostly spoke in open-world jargon—talking about how much freedom you’ll have to blow stuff up, and so…

Our First Good Look At Scalebound 

Shown off at the Xbox press conference in Germany today, here’s a long look at Scalebound, the Monster Hunter-ish action game by Platinum Games that’ll be out on Xbox One next year.

Watch The Big Xbox Gamescom Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

Suffering from E3 withdrawal? We’ve got your fix right here, thanks to Gamescom, which kicks off this morning in Germany with a big ol’ Xbox press conference. Straight out of Cologne, the folks behind Xbox will be sharing news and trailers for games like Scalebound, Quantum Break, Crackdown, Halo 5, Rise of the Tomb Raider,…

Valve’s Dota 2 Tournament Stage Looks Pretty Cool

This must be one of the coolest eSports arenas we’ve seen so far. Valve’s annual Dota 2 tournament The International kicked off yesterday and they’ve built a stage that fits the $18 million total prize money. It’s not just the Dota map projected onto the stage, but whenever someone uses Ultimates or even basic spells,…

Behold, a baby Star Dragon from MagnaStorm, a Canadian plush artist. Star Dragons hail from the breeding game Dragon City, and they’re especially cute in plushie form—though that’s not to say that MagnaStorm’s other plushies are slacking in that department. You can find them here Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing…

Hands-on With The Pokémon Fighting Game

While Pokken may be a portmanteau word of “Pokémon” and “Tekken,” the actual game Pokkén Tournament is anything but a mixture of the two. When it comes down to it, Tekken is a complex fighting game filled with numerous combos that tend to result in your juggling your opponent in the air as long as…

The Up All Night Stream Plays The New Vocaloid Music Game [Finished]

Move over Miku. There’s a new virtual idol in town and she’s got a game all her own. So come join me as I play it. Update: The stream is now over. And sadly, as a music game with copyrighted music, twitch has automatically muted most of the stream. However, a chunk of it has…